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With the game essentially being finished, Skullgirls players have been having more time to delve deeper and deeper into the gameplay, discovering new setups, more damaging combos, and grimier resets. Here we have a small collection of what the community has been uncovering in recent days.

First up we have a really cool tag combo, utilizing Valentine’s hitstun poison to tag into Robo-Fortune and still continue the combo. Valentine’s hitstun/green poison increases the hitstun of every attack by a significant amount, which makes this possible. The combo isn’t optimized, but does well in showing off what is possible.

If you’ve been paying attention you’ll have noticed the final gameplay change to Skullgirls has undergone testing. The primary reason for this testing was because the community discovered just how optimal resets could be, and 3v3 teams were capable of killing with only one reset. While this problem is being addressed, below we have some combos showing off exactly why this needed to change.

First up is Mr.Peck, with a Peacock+Robo Fortune kill setup.

Next he posted a Peacock corner combo. While it isn’t a one-reset kill combo, doing this much damage at max undizzy (the green bar under the health that restricts combo length) is part of the problem being addressed in the next patch.

We also have some combos from Twitter, showing off just how much damage optimal combo routes can get in Skullgirls.

3v3 HCH ToD, 1 meter start.
Absolutely forbidden.
Fuck this goddamn team, really. pic.twitter.com/AU8VTvb7mH

— Fosh (@xFosh) February 6, 2017

Lastly, we have a few combos from both cR|dekillsage and Echo Fox|SonicFox, the two best Skullgirls players today, showing off a lot of the crazy reset-into-death combos that were being uncovered. Most of these will be less potent and/or won’t kill after the next update, but they’re still cool.

Sources: Mr Peck; Datagram; SonicFox5000; Fosh; dekillsage

Liu Kang has been one of the perennial faces of the Mortal Kombat franchise since its inception. He is one of the most recognizable characters in the series, and he is always well-represented early on by players picking up the game for nostalgia.

In this combo video, we see Liu Kang seriously burn his opponents. We get to see all three of his variations on display; whereas a lot of combo videos for the game usually end up with corner juggles, we get to see a lot of Liu Kang corner carries from midscreen here.

Source: Legendary Kaee

2017 seems to be becoming the year of Marvel: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is now available on current gen consoles, and the prior version’s lost DLC fighters are restored. This is before even the “last hurrah” it’s getting at Evo 2017 before the new Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite drops and takes the world by Storm (whether or not she’s in the game).

As far as UMvC3 goes, one character who never really found a solid foothold in the meta was Jill Valentine, which was accented by her DLC’s removal in the prior version (along with Shuma-Gorath). There have always been fans of the character however, and here we see one such fan, HaileyLov3sP1nK, in action. Below we have both a series of fun combos, mostly featuring her in some capacity, and a tutorial for the character.

Source: HaileyLov3sP1nK